We had a flyby only last week, I think.
We actually use flybys -- sorry.
because unlike other first planetary flybys , historically, that happened in the late 20th century, the flyby of Pluto
When we did the Pluto flyby , it totally came out that we would have had it a decade ago if it weren't for Richard Nixon.
So as they were doing the flyby , they turned communications off so that they could do all of the observations.
and they did their final flyby in September of 1983-- to go and catch a comet.
And now they need to do a flyby of Mars.
We had had our first flybys of all the classically known planets except for Pluto.
and how we had to plan four flybys because we were worried we would find hazardous debris that could strike the spacecraft on approach.
who figured out that by doing several flybys of the Earth and flybys of Moon, that you could gain enough orbital energy to fly by the Moon--
There are people talking about flybys around the moon.
We know if a merger event or maybe a flyby event-- another galaxy comes past the galaxy, interacts with it gravitationally but doesn't merge with it--
Actually, the relative flyby velocities that we have on the Rosetta are extremely low for a space mission.
congratulations on that um thought we'd just do a quick flyby and then really we want to make this as interactive and as
But the point at which you would choose was so close to the moment of flyby that you had to have the software on the shelf.
And then, a couple of months after the flyby , when we had enough data to sort of understand the lay of the land, I scored that against the real Pluto.
we'll do lots of things we couldn't do with a simple flyby .
But for things like flybys that you use every week, where it's just establishing shots of the ship, it actually becomes--
But before that, we flew flybys of about two kilometers.
During the end of mission, some of the flybys , in fact, that's why they were able to find the lander, some of the flybys were several kilometers.
And then if we find a fresh plume, we want to target that observation on that flyby without the ground in the loop.
Another mission has going back to Tempel 1 since and seen the crater left in a brief flyby .
And so by going to a comet and investigating it in detail, not just a brief flyby , we may learn much more
On the way past, one of my favorite pictures-- this is Antarctica on a flyby , skimming across the Earth's surface or the above the atmosphere.
We had one of the co-investigators on the New Horizons mission which just did the flyby of the dwarf planet Pluto, but very exciting
So again, our stuff is not quite as sexy as doing a flyby of the planets, but it's really the stuff that NASA does that's most directly impactful to life
So they're not going into orbit, they're just-- doink-- doing a flyby .
26 years from when Allen started working on this, got the idea and started rallying people together, to the actual flyby of Pluto.
There's a chapter-- it's one of my couple of favorites in the whole book-- called Battle Plan Pluto, where we tell the story of how you actually plan a flyby like this
And we actually had a poll, and we had a meeting a couple of months before the flyby .
So at the time of Halley, when we encountered with Giotto, we knew that we wanted to do more than just a brief flyby .
You don't want to get too close to the solar system, because this object will disturb the orbits in a close flyby .
So, we have drones that do flybys of certain areas where we need that extra granularity.